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  • Tesla Cancels Production of Right-Hand Drive Model S and Model X

    Tesla Cancels Production of Right-Hand Drive Model S and Model X

    Tesla has recently announced that it is cancelling the production of right-hand drive Model S and Model X vehicles, citing low demand in certain regions. This move surprises many customers who have been waiting for their orders to be fulfilled.

    According to the company, customers who have already placed orders for the right-hand drive Model S and Model X will be offered refunds or the option to switch to a left-hand drive version. Tesla has also stated that it will continue to support existing right-hand drive vehicles with parts and service.

    This decision by Tesla is likely because most countries drive on the right-hand side of the road, making left-hand drive vehicles more popular. Additionally, the Model S and Model X are older models in Tesla’s lineup, and the company may be looking to shift its focus to newer vehicles.

    Tesla has informed reservation holders that they will not offer right-hand-drive Model S and Model X vehicles for the foreseeable future. Customers can opt to purchase a left-hand drive model, receive a credit towards a Model 3 or Model Y, or cancel the reservation and receive a full refund. Those who choose to change their reservation for a Model 3 or Model Y will receive a credit of up to $2,175 in Ireland and up to $2,000 in Australia.

    The demand for Tesla’s Model S and X has decreased significantly due to their outdated models compared to newer models from startups and established OEMs. In 2022, Tesla built 71,777 of these models but only sold 66,705, and in Q1 2023, they built 19,437 but almost half remain unsold.

    Despite this setback, Tesla has been making strides in the electric vehicle market. Its latest vehicle, the Model Y, has been well-received, and the company is working on developing new technologies such as autonomous driving and advanced battery system

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  • Tesla Model X electric cars to hit Indonesian roads

    Tesla Model X electric cars to hit Indonesian roads

    Indonesians can now purchase US-made Tesla Model X electronic luxury cars with price tags starting from US$200,000. Prestige Image Motorcars, the sole Tesla motor car distributor in Indonesia, began exhibiting one of the cars at its showroom in Pluit, North Jakarta, on Tuesday.

    Prestige president director Rudy Salim said his company started receiving orders for the car in June with deliveries, beginning in September.

    “Tesla cars have good prospects in the Indonesian market, considering they are not the most expensive among the super cars in the country,” Rudy said.

    Each Telsa cars is equipped with a battery that supports up to 350 kilometers of travel, much more than Indonesians generally needed, Rudy said.

    A director of the Association of Indonesian Automotive Manufacturers (Gaikindo), Jongkie Sugiarto, said that Tesla cars would have their own fans in Indonesia.

    However, he said, luxury cars belonged to a specific and limited market, which did not grow significantly.

    According to Gaikindo, the domestic sales of diesel and petrol cars in the first four months of the year increased by 5.71 percent to 373,407 from 352,072 in the same period of 2016.

    Tesla Inc. of the United States was quoted by Reuters as saying in April 2 that its first-quarter vehicle deliveries jumped by 69 percent to 25,000 vehicles compared to the same period last year.

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  • Tesla’s new Model X will cost you an arm and a leg in China

    Tesla’s new Model X will cost you an arm and a leg in China

    Fans of affordable electric vehicles, avert your eyes. Tesla has announced its mainland China pricing for high-end models of its upcoming SUV, the Model X, and the numbers are not pretty. The 90D model, which will cost around US$100,000 in most other markets, will run Chinese consumers a whopping US$146,000. Chinese Tesla fans who want the fancy P90D Signature Red limited edition model can expect to pay almost US$225,000 (the Signature P90D reportedly costs US$132,000 in the US).

    This news shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Prices for other Tesla models in China, like the Model S 70D it announced last year, feature similar markups.

    It’s not clear exactly who Tesla fans should blame for the consistently high prices. China does charge high import duties on luxury cars, reportedly around 25 percent. But Chinese state media has accused foreign automakers of price-gouging in China, and a 25 percent tariff doesn’t explain how the P90D Signature model seems to double in price somewhere between Tesla’s US home and Beijing.

    On the other hand, Tesla claims that it charges the same prices for all of its cars after accounting for transportation costs and import duties. And Tesla’s prices are pretty reasonable compared to other imported luxury cars. Tesla’s China markup for the Model X 90D is 53.7 percent. That’s nothing compared to the whopping 188.4 percent markup Chinese consumers pay to buy the BMW M5, for example, which costs under US$100,000 in the US and nearly US$300,000 in China. The China markup on a luxury SUV, the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, is even worse (194 percent).

    Even with the high costs, the Model X could do well in China. A fan tally (which almost certainly doesn’t account for all reservations) suggests the company has over 2,600 Model X units reserved in China already. Moreover, the car features an air-filtering biodefense system that could be a boon to urban Chinese drivers who want to ensure they’re not breathing in Beijing’s toxic haze.

    Lower costs coming?

    It will be interesting to see how Tesla prices its lower-cost Model 3 when that hits the market next year (or later). Currently, its offerings are all luxury-tier, and although the China prices are inflated, China’s luxury car consumers can generally afford to pay them. China has more than a million millionaires, after all. But the Model 3 is intended to be accessible to the middle class, at least in Western markets. Will Tesla price it aggressively to go after that market in China too, or will it become a low-end luxury offering thanks to China price inflation?

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